Crunchbase News

JANUARY 9, 2025

billion to develop data centers in Spain. In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Last year it was reported the worlds largest asset manager plans to invest $8.2

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Table of Contents Breakout year for AI Q4 push Large values, billion-dollar rounds US gained, Silicon Valley fired up Late-stage Q4 boom Early stage flat Seed settled Liquidity hold-up Methodology Glossary of funding terms Related reading Breakout year for AI One thing was clear: 2024 was the breakout year for funding to AI companies.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 2, 2024

Wonder ’s big $700 million raise may have captured most people’s attention last month, but the story when it came for large deals was really biotech. Mirador Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: It was a huge month for big biotech raises and this was the biggest. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Energy and data centers seem to be on everyone’s mind right now — and this week’s list bears that out. Lightmatter , $400M, data centers: Lightmatter, a startup that uses light to link chips together and to do calculations for the deep learning necessary for AI, locked up a $400 million Series D led by new investor T.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. According to Internet Data Center (IDC) , global data is projected to increase to 175 zettabytes in 2025, up from 33 zettabytes in 2018.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It also took part in the $135 million Series D for San Francisco-based EvenUp , a legal tech startup creating artificial intelligence products for the personal injury sector. Related reading: AI, Data Center And Energy Startups Get Large Capital Infusion In October OpenAI Raises $6.6B

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The startup gives access to the highly sought after AI chips from Nvidia through its more than two dozen data centers. Gen Teare Health and biotech Hinge Health : This is another IPO prediction where were not exactly going out on a limb (pun intended in this case). It seems well positioned to make that happen.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 29, 2024

While there were no huge rounds like last week, money was again spread around from AI to biotech to marketing and more. Let’s see if April can continue the trend of a growing amount of large raises. This March certainly did not go out like a lamb, with seven rounds hitting $100 million or more in the final week.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Artificial intelligence was big in 2023 — and that could be the understatement of the year. As part of the deal, Anthropic will now use Amazon Web Services data centers, as well as AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models. However, that’s why we’re here.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 19, 2024

Metsera , $290M, biotech: This week was a slower week than normal for biotech — as it was for most sectors — but that didn’t stop New York-based Metsera. Also last month, Astera Labs — a developer of data center connectivity technology with use cases in generative AI — soared after its initial public offering on the Nasdaq.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

German-based biotech company BioNTech — one of the big manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, among other things — is set to acquire InstaDeep , a Tunis-born and U.K.-based Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers, Romain reports. Startups and VC.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 2, 2024

April also saw a half-dozen rounds of a quarter-billion dollars or more, including a $1 billion round for an AI-enhanced biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round in April was really big. Augment , $227M, artificial intelligence: AI coding startups are making a big splash. Let’s take a look.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 8, 2024

Early stage Activity in Q1 was pretty robust at early stage, boosted by big rounds for companies focused on biotech, artificial intelligence and climate tech. Santa Clara, California-based Astera, a developer of data center connectivity technology with use cases in generative AI, made its splashy debut first on March 20.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last week AI private market investors likely rejoiced when it was reported data center startup Astera Labs was preparing for a potential March initial public offering. The fund plans to lead or co-lead investments and focus on enterprise software startups, including, of course, those using artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Khosla said that a good analogy was biotech/pharma investing, where it takes 10-15 years from concept to a drug approved on market. .” To summarize the scale of efforts needed, Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab , Heliogen and Energy Vault , said , “We need thousands of shots on goal to do it, and entrepreneurship is the answer.”

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Liquid AI , $250M, artificial intelligence: What would a week be without a big generative AI raise? The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company has created liquid foundation models lightweight, general-purpose AI models that need less data and compute power. billion, per the report.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The scope includes companies working with machine learning, fintech, biotech, cybersecurity, smart cities, voice recognition, and healthtech. Southern Data Science Conference 2020. The matters of deep learning basics, application of data analytics and data science with different frameworks and tools will be discussed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies.

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BrainStation Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

and machine-learning job positions in a single U.S. The life sciences sub-sector is likewise healthy thanks to New York’s nine academic medical centers, more than 50 hospitals and 100-plus research foundations. Startup Genome’s report found that New York boasted the highest percentage of A.I. It’s New York.

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BrainStation Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

and machine-learning job positions in a single U.S. The life sciences sub-sector is likewise healthy thanks to New York’s nine academic medical centers, more than 50 hospitals and 100-plus research foundations. Startup Genome’s report found that New York boasted the highest percentage of A.I. It’s New York.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Despite the drop, China did see four of the six $1 billion-plus rounds to Asia-based startups last year: In February, artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI raised more than $1 billion in a funding round led by Alibaba Group and HongShan , formerly Sequoia Capital China. billion last year. billion Series B.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

In Denver, meanwhile, the largest round by a long shot was a $600 million October Series D for Crusoe Energy Systems , a developer of AI-optimized data centers. For Boston, it was Liquid AI , a generative AI startup that closed on a $250 million December Series A. Will secondary AI hubs nab a bigger share of funding?

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 12, 2025

Just as data centers have seen billions of dollars in investments to help with the problem, so could quantum computing. Even aside from AI, it seems many are starting to warm to the technology’s ability to transform a variety of industries ranging from healthcare and biotech to financial services to even defense.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 17, 2025

In the last nearly two quarters, the fund has participated in 13 funding rounds many of them large and many of them involving artificial intelligence per Crunchbase data. The Vision Fund also took part in data center firm GDS International s massive $1.2 That was not its only AI-related deal.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 31, 2025

ElevenLabs , $180M, artificial intelligence: Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raised a $180 million round led by Iconiq Growth and Andreessen Horowitz at a $3.3 Last October, Pacific Fusion , a startup attempting to create a nuclear fusion-based energy source, raised more than $900 million in a Series A led by General Catalyst.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 5, 2025

Funding to healthcare and biotech totaled 22% of total investment. Hardware received 18% of funding last month, with large rounds for data centers and robotics startups, while 15% of funding went to the manufacturing sector, where startups in defense and aerospace, and material science raised large rounds.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Artificial intelligence once again dominated venture capital last year. Crusoe Energy Systems , $600M, energy: Back in 2022, this Denver-based company was helping power Bitcoin mining by harnessing natural gas that is typically burned during oil extraction and putting it toward powering the data centers needed for mining.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Better models, cheaper energy Venture capital funding alone cant foot the bill for AI model development, chip innovation, data centers and energy output, although a lot of innovation will continue to be funded by VCs. Just a couple of years ago, the U.S. received just under half 48% of total venture spending.

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